Little movement on recommendations

Delays in moving ahead with some of the critical recommendations contained in the Report of the National Insurance Reform Committee could seriously affect the future viability of the Scheme, according to a source close to the Scheme.

Five months after the completion of, and submission of the report to Cabinet Secretary and NIS Board Chairman Dr Roger Luncheon there has been no official pronouncement on steps towards the Implementation of the report’s recommendations. In his letter to Dr Luncheon accompanying the report Chairman of the Reform Committee, Rajendra Rampersaud had said that the Committee looked forward “to a speedy implementation of the recommendations once the Board had accepted them.”

Stabroek Business understands that the Report of the Reform Committee is also to be considered by Cabinet and the National Assembly.

The source told Stabroek Business that that “the slow pace in moving the report forward” was “decidedly at variance with the apparent sense of importance that had been attached to the work of the Reform Committee in the first place. …..